“They can go through the history and see a trail.”

But at the same time, there’s still a classy side to me that I’ve seen in Oakland as well.

I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don’t have to babysit them and be there all the time.

The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%.

No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

I am so weak over love and heartbreak.

There’s so many different elements to Oakland.

I feel that when you have a passion and you are real.

It’s straight and narrow, you can see the growth and understand that I’m not afraid to give you honesty and be honest about anything that has to do with my story.

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it.

I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak.

I’m one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that’s another side of me.

It’s the best way for people to get to me know.

It’s honest. I can’t portray to you something that I’ve never been through or something I didn’t watch someone close to me go through.

I feel like it has been lost in R&B and a lot of people are scared to talk about their vulnerabilities and insecurities. They want to keep it up and in the club.

This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. ..but she never realized how much pain it brought her…. -Nana Komatsu

When people hear about teenage parents and teenage pregnancy, they attribute a lot of personality traits to those individuals, which is just such a bizarre thing when you really think about it.

Like, how does age and circumstance equate to some kind of personality trait?

It invited new ways of thinking.

You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.